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From: "Karl M" <karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com, fred AT ontosys DOT com, Lesley DOT D DOT Lahman AT medstar DOT net
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem Tunneling VNC through SSH
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:56:11 -0700
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Hi All...

OOPS! it is AllowLoopback for the value name, not ConnectPriority.

AllowLoopback will let the vnc server accept a connection from 
itself...otherwise it blocks the connection. ConnectPriority allose a single 
or multiple connections at once (two way connections).

Thanks,

...Karl


>From: "Karl M" <karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com>
>To: fred AT ontosys DOT com, Lesley DOT D DOT Lahman AT medstar DOT net
>CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: Problem Tunneling VNC through SSH
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:07:00 -0700
>
>Hi All...
>
>I use
>
>ssh -f -L 5901:localhost:5900 myserver sleep 30
>
>from a Windows 2000 client (or Windows NT 4), so that the port will
>automatically close down when I'm done. And the -f lets me put the launch 
>of
>the tunnel and the vncviewer in the same script file.
>
>When you do a "loopback" connection on your server...have you modified the
>registry to allow this? The value is called ConnectPriority in the WINVNC3
>key I think.
>
>Thanks,
>
>...Karl
>
>
>
>>From: fred AT ontosys DOT com
>>To: Lesley DOT D DOT Lahman AT medstar DOT net
>>CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: Re: Problem Tunneling VNC through SSH
>>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:13:36 -0500
>>
>>On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:12:05PM -0400, Lesley DOT D DOT Lahman AT medstar DOT net
>>wrote:
>> > When on my_workstation I start ssh like this:
>> > 'ssh -L 5901:my_server:5900 my_server'
>> > port 5900 on my_server then supposedly is forwarded to
>> > port 5901 on my_workstation, which corresponds to display 1.
>>
>>Doesn't that actually forward my_workstation:5901 to my_server:5900,
>>given the sense of "forward" usually used with ssh?
>>
>>Have you tried 'ssh -L 5901:my_server:5901 my_server'?  That way when
>>'vncviewer my_workstation:1' tries to connect to port 5901 on
>>my_workstation it will end up communicating with port 5901 on the
>>my_server.
>>
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>>Principal Consultant     www.OntoSys.com       fax: +1.630.879.1370
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